Popularity of Baseball Around the World

Baseball is played around the world, though it is more popular in certain countries. Here we use online search traffic for the term 'Baseball' to analyze which countries it is more popular. See also the lists of popular sports in many countries.

Baseball is most popular, based on online searches for that term, in the US, with Central American countries also ranking high.

ranking

Country

Regional Popularity *

1

United States

100

2

Dominican Republic

43

3

Canada

41

4

Puerto Rico

41

5

Cuba

41

6

Iraq

25

7

Nicaragua

19

8

Panama

18

9

Afghanistan

15

10

Venezuela

14

11

Australia

14

12

South Korea

10

13

Philippines

8

14

Taiwan

7

15

New Zealand

7

16

Honduras

7

17

United Kingdom

7

18

Costa Rica

7

19

Mexico

6

20

Guatemala

6

21

Jamaica

6

22

Italy

5

23

Ireland

5

24

Trinidad and Tobago

5

25

Hong Kong

4

26

Singapore

4

27

South Africa

4

28

Czech Republic

4

29

Hungary

4

30

Germany

4

31

Netherlands

3

32

Croatia

3

33

El Salvador

3

34

Norway

3

35

Sweden

3

36

Switzerland

3

37

Pakistan

3

38

Denmark

3

39

Japan

2

40

India

2

41

Austria

2

42

Indonesia

2

43

Kuwait

2

44

France

2

45

Finland

2

46

Sri Lanka

2

47

Belgium

2

48

Lebanon

2

49

Slovakia

2

50

Israel

2

51

United Arab Emirates

2

52

Colombia

2

53

Malaysia

2

54

Slovenia

2

55

Portugal

2

56

Estonia

2

57

Bosnia and Herzegovina

2

58

Greece

2

59

Ecuador

2

60

Spain

2

61

Brazil

1

62

Romania

1

63

Poland

1

64

Thailand

1

65

Latvia

1

66

Chile

1

67

Argentina

1

68

Lithuania

1

69

Bulgaria

1

70

Peru

1

71

Viet Nam

1

72

Tunisia

1

73

Saudi Arabia

1

74

Russian Federation

1

75

China

1

* Regional Popularity is a relative term (proportional to the most popular term and related to the popularity of other terms in each region), and does not represent an actual number of searches.

Source

This list is derived from Google Insights for Search, collected over a four year period (Jan 2007 to Jan 2011).